they did it out of spite, to get you to stop ordering groceries from the internet, lol

this is why instances should be abstracted away as underlying infrastructure and the users don't have to think about "instances". accounts and communities are replicated across servers.

this is so fucking stupid though. almost everyone reads books and/or watches movies, and their speech is developed from that. the way we speak is modeled after characters and dialogue in books. the way we think is often from books. do we track down what percentage of each sentence comes from what book every time we think or talk?

again, this why i claim that lemmy is not the solution to the problem we are trying to solve.

it is true that companies are here to make money. my question is: are there any institutions whose purpose is to benefit humanity, without any hidden maladaptive intent? even the "communicating important scientific work to the public" enterprise is corrupted by perverse incentives. and if not, what is the process by such an institution can come about?

i'm still just pissed that they renamed it to "play store"

are we no longer allowed to borrow books from friends?

to expound:

the tankie instance or the nutballs on the fascist instance

here you reveal a conceptual misunderstanding, or rather, a part of the lemmy architecture which i disagree with. there shouldn't be a concept of a "interest X instance" etc. it should be similar to a distributed storage model. so the concept of a community is not per-instance, it's just an abstract thing that exists in conceptual space.

this is what i'm frustrated with. why do all these engineers let themselves be told what to do even if it makes a worse-functioning tool? that's not real engineering.

"because they'll get fired"

not if enough of them do the thing that should've been what got them interested in engineering in the first place.

maybe we shouldn't call them engineers, but something else relating to being the one who does the dirty work for institutions that aim to steal people's attention and decrease their quality of life.

and if they do get fired, then they should join together and make the reasonable company that makes good tools for human use.

such bullshit. how can engineers not let this happen?

interesting. how does that process work?

27yo tech enthusiast and worker and linux user here

cool, i'll check out those papers. have you had much success in discovering new molecules this way? it seems like if it works then that means that the neural net that emerged has discovered some law of physics (or property of chemistry, w/e) that we do not know. in other words, within the sequence of calculations lies some physical law.

the "term" technology has been corrupted. what people call "tech" is not tech, it is gadgetry.

what tasks have you tested this on? or what type of tasks do you intend it to be used for?

you already share water with them though. how is this any different? more seriously though, you already share internet infrastructure with them. the packets you just sent to make that comment could have been sandwiched between a "tankie" and a "fascist nutball". that's just the way it is man, there have always been crazy humans.

how do you do that?

a lot of work for fairly little benefit on the back-end

i think enough people want the feature that the benefit would be worth it

limiting it to communities with the exact same name

you actually wouldn't have to limit it to exact same name if you're making a front-end thing, if you allow for the user to configure their "merged communities"

sort of rock your hand as you instantiate an array

now that's a good idea

oh wow this post blew up! cool stuff y'all. unfortunately what i'm doing for job is boring (software engineer), but i try to do cool stuff on the side. like a laravel code generation thing, which also helps with a community exchange website that uses esri arcgis to map the things. not done yet and my progress is very slow because i can't dedicate all my time to it. also helping some friends with a game in unity. also been trying to learn about lemmy, activitypub, decentralized apps, etc. and get involved in development.

communities across instances could essentially link their feeds

yes, that's pretty much what i'm saying. in the background, that is what would be happening, but on the frontend, the user just sees "communityname" and a bunch of posts that are pulled from all instances that have a community matching that name.

unihertz jelly 2. unihertz also some other small phones. also has a headphone jack, fm radio, wrist strap, customizable LED, programmable hardware button.

this is actually very interesting. i take it you've heard of the concept of "mechanistic interpretability"? perhaps you could learn something about your networks by implementing some of that methodology. here's a glossary. also recommend poking around neelanda's blog if you want to learn more.

“Those are just a few of the big transport visions that, just a few years ago, Silicon Valley told us were right around the corner.” where’s the source on this?

the government in its current form would have that flaw in the content distribution system, yes, but his main idea is that it would be like open-source ran in the sense of "government of the people"

good point with being able to switch to another if a mod goes haywire. but i think that there just shouldn't be any mods -- or rather, the community members should moderate themselves via some algorithm that uses votes, discussion, etc. to hide/remove posts. you could choose to view a hidden post that has been downvoted a lot if you want.

to clarify, "admin of an instance" is different from "moderator of a community".

correct. so let's have a way to "connect" communities, a way for any 2 communities on 2 different instances (or the same instance) to "merge" their content, even if they have different names (e.g. "games" "gaming"). now maybe this could be user-defined, a per client thing, like multireddits, but with a recommendation on each community page that shows the most frequent "client community-merge-configurations"

that's pretty awesome. is it open source? what a world it will be when everyone is using an AI assistant like this. until it ends up ordering way too many pizzas for the group (perhaps because of an error of ordering 1 pizza for each topping, instead of understanding how half-half toppings configuration for each pizza has been specified.) but then that won't be a big deal because someone else's AI program will detect that this error has occurred and quickly get those extra pizzas to someone nearby who does want them lol. i can see AI really helping to eliminate food waste, and probably just help distribute resources more efficiently and sensibly. this would also end up altering the value of the dollar w.r.t. geographical location.

here's the markup:

[{a:7},"`\n~",{a:4},"(\n",")","\\\n|"],
[{a:7},",",{a:4},"[\n{","]\n}","="],
["Num Lock","/","*","-",{x:0.25,f:4,w:14,h:5,d:true},""],
[{f:3},"7\nHome","8\n↑","9\nPgUp",{h:2},"+"],
["4\n←","5","6\n→"],
["1\nEnd","2\n↓","3\nPgDn",{h:2},"Enter"],
["0\nIns",",",".\nDel"],
[{w:2},"Space", ";\n:"]

I thought things are distributed and are replicated across servers (much like how distributed storage and computing works)

yes, exactly! when you use the internet, you don't manually choose which ISPs to route through. you can pick which DNS servers to use but you don't have to. when you use youtube, netflix, or facebook, you don't choose which CDNs to use.

everyone has all the duplicated data.

everyone does not have all the duplicated data. they only have the data that they need -- the data requested by a user who happens to be using some instance.

handling defederating is a good point. there could be malicious nodes that would be damaging to the network. i suppose there could be a community-mainted ledger of known malicious nodes (similar to minecraft usernames of known hackers), and the admins of the servers would maintain a blacklist. (obviously you configure that your instance's blacklist would be automatically synced with this ledger)

the mega community idea could be good. where is this being discussed?

fair point. recall that this is the first draft. i'll post the second draft today.

aahh, now that would be interesting. i've always liked that all the letters of hex happen to be on lefthand side of keyboard anyway. instead of adding new keys i think i'd rather have A-F be shift of 0-5

agreed. i kind of neglected those characters initially but will add them now

but the big phone manufacturers don't realize there's a market for this and they completely neglect that. or rather, they know that there's a market for it but they know it won't make them enough profit so they stick with the mainstream, which is a huge shame. i'm sure that there are engineers working at google, samsung, etc. who would love to work on smaller phones, phones with other unique hardware such as trackballs, but aren't able to because of "turn everything into money" mindset.

sorry man i guess people will just never learn how the voting system works (i upvoted you). i obviously understand some people like big phones, phablets, if you will. and that's fine. i still use my phablet for media and stuff.

you should be able to install a custom ROM that allows you to have notification bar on bottom so that you can swipe up.

Wish we had the option to add it to the bottom

@apple @android feature request here. submitting ticket.

This is all different when building a social network

wait you want censorship in a social network? also, the architecture i'm describing does not do away with moderation and social structure. what about it makes you think that to be the case?